thats a decent try at justification but its just linguistic foot work as long as were talking about using race as somebodies defining characteristic were talking about using race as somebodies defining characteristic prettying up the label wont change that first it was nigger but then nigger was a bad word so negro was the polite word now negro is bad too and the same for coloured so were up to people of colour all weve done is shift the posts around were still generalizing a group based on race